By John Cannon The water-filled ditches that laced through the oil palm plantation in Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the ...

It’s responsible for pushing a product found in half of the most common food and consumer items, but the $60 billion palm oil industry has largely evaded the kind of public health scrutiny focused on ...

A study published in the WHO Bulletin has likened the palm oil industry’s tactics to those of the tobacco and alcohol lobbies to obscure the direct and indirect health impacts of the commodity. The ...

Palm oil is naturally more solid than most other vegetable oils, and the demise of trans fats will leave it as an easy choice for ultra-processed foods, said the study, co-authored by researchers at ...

Removing soybean oil and other seed oils from food products would force the industry to rely on imported palm oil to fill the gap, driving up consumer prices, according to a study funded by the United ...

The report was commissioned by signatories to the Sustainable Palm Oil Manifesto, a group of several major oil palm growers, traders, agribusiness companies and other end users. The study does not ...

A new study says Palm Springs International Airport has a $2.5 billion economic impact on the region. The figure includes visitor spending, jobs supported by tourism and other factors. Passenger ...

The palm oil industry is deploying tactics similar to those of the alcohol and tobacco industries to influence research into the health effects of its product, a study published by the World Health ...